UnicodeEncodeError when changing the app_label in Django

Question

From here, I have changed my model like this:

class MyModel(User):

    class Meta:
        verbose_name=u"my app verbose name"
        app_label = u"My Members"
        db_table = "members_mymodel"

Now I have an error when going to app in django admin:

Traceback (most recent call last):



File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 283, in run
    self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/handlers.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self.application(environ, start_response)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 272, in __call__
    response = self.get_response(request)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 146, in get_response
    response = debug.technical_404_response(request, e)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/views/debug.py", line 294, in technical_404_response
    'reason': smart_str(exception, errors='replace'),

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 123, in smart_str
    errors) for arg in s])

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py", line 124, in smart_str
    return unicode(s).encode(encoding, errors)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 191, in __repr__
    return '<%s %s (%s:%s) %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.urlconf_name, self.app_name, self.namespace, self.regex.pattern)

  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 191, in __repr__
    return '<%s %s (%s:%s) %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, self.urlconf_name, self.app_name, self.namespace, self.regex.pattern)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0130' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

admin link :

http://localhost:8000/admin/My%20Members/

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

I dont think you're allowed to place "space" character in your ``app_label``. Also it should be lowercase only. — seler, May 06 '12 at 12:14

Sam Starling · Answer 1 · 2012-05-06T12:03:45.030

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Sounds like you have an odd character (\u0130) somewhere in your codebase. That character is a "latin capital letter i with a dot above": İ. Try searching for that and removing it.

If you're using UTF-8 characters in your .py files, declare them as being UTF-8 by adding this as the first line:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

edited May 06 '12 at 12:03

answered May 06 '12 at 11:49

Sam Starling

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I have to use charactres that using in foreign languages. But now in my model, without any special character, I have the same error. Thanks – TheNone May 06 '12 at 11:53
Where are you using these characters then? Do you have them in a `.py` file somewhere within your project? They could still cause issues when they get imported. – Sam Starling May 06 '12 at 11:55
I am using them in models.py in app_label – TheNone May 06 '12 at 12:00
I've updated my answer, you should declare that your file contains UTF-8 characters. – Sam Starling May 06 '12 at 12:04
I have '#encoding: utf-8' line in my all .py files. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- also not sense :( I think that I use different way to change my app names in django admin – TheNone May 06 '12 at 12:05
Or use HTML entities instead - such as `İ`. – Sam Starling May 06 '12 at 12:14

UnicodeEncodeError when changing the app_label in Django

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